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The 2020 Republican National Convention in which delegates of the United States Republican Party selected the party's nominees for president and vice president in the 2020 United States presidential election, was held from August 24 to 27, 2020. [1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, [2] plans to convene a traditional large ...
- August 24–27, 2020
- Delegate Selection and Allocation
- Pledged vs. Unpledged Delegates
- See Also
Delegates are individuals chosen to represent their state at their party's national nominating convention. Republican delegates may be selected in a variety of ways, including through elections, by the Republican state committee, by state or congressional district conventions, or by virtue of a leadership position within the state's Republican Part...
Pledged delegates
Pledged delegates, also called bound delegates, are bound to vote on at least the first ballot at the national convention based on the results of their states' primary or caucus. The Rules of the Republican Party, as passed in July 2016 and amended in July 2018, state the following: There are four distinct types of pledged Republican delegates: Pledged district delegatesare distributed and elected at the congressional district level. The Republican Party assigns three district-level delegates...
Unpledged delegates
Unpledged delegates, also called unbound delegates, are not bound by the results of state primaries or caucuses. Some state and territory party rules dictate that some or all of their Republican delegates are unbound.The following was an estimate of unbound Republican delegates as of May 2019. 1. Pennsylvania's 54district-level delegates were not bound to support any particular presidential candidate. 2. North Dakota does not hold a presidential primary or caucus in which citizens vote. All 2...
Argument that delegates are unbound
Former RNC committee member Curly Haugland and public policy consultant Sean Parnell argued in their 2016 book, Unbound: The Conscience of a Republican Delegate, that delegates are free to vote their conscience and are not bound by state or party laws to vote according to the results of party primaries or caucuses.Click on the following links to learn more about arguments for and against this interpretation of delegate binding: 1. Green Papers: "The Ties that Bind–or Do They?"(March 19, 2016)...
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The Republican National Committee's Executive Committee voted on June 10, 2020, to adopt the same platform the party used in 2016. The decision accompanied a series of adjustments to the itinerary and location of the Republican National Convention due to the coronavirus pandemic, including reducing the number of in-person delegates attending the convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, from ...
The Republican Party held its national convention from August 24-27, 2020. [1] Limited in-person events took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. [2] On July 23, 2020, President Donald Trump announced that high-profile convention events previously moved to Jacksonville, Florida, including his nomination acceptance speech, had been canceled for ...
Convention on July 18, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio, and as amended by the Republican National Committee on July 20, 2018 in Austin, Texas, the Republican National Committee hereby directs that a national convention of delegated representatives of the Republican Party be convened in Charlotte,
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Weld. 1. Delegate counts will be available beginning with the Iowa Caucus on February 3, 2020. A majority of the estimated 2,550 (1,276+) are needed to win the Republican nomination on the first ballot. The map below shows the number of delegates each state will send to the Republican convention. Use the filters below the map to view it in ...
Aug 27, 2020 · See you all in November! Aug. 27, 2020, 11:50 PM ET. President Trump headlined the fourth and final night of the Republican convention. Our correspondents followed every revelation and provided ...
